- sedan 179,320
- 14,995 overpriced
- Riverhead, NY
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- carsforsale.com
- sedan 179,320 gasoline manual
1987 mercedes benz w201 190e 2. 3-16v for sale1 family owned $37,500 when new! Very, very rareruns fantastic!! In the late 1970s, the idea of a subcompact german luxury car was unheard of, but american cafe standards were looming. Thus, the baby benz was conceived. The 190e had to be indistinguishable from any other mercedes from its driver's seat - that's right, the car the size of a pea would have to feel like the princess' full-size coach. Mercedes developed and patented an exotic five-link rear suspension that was to provide the best wheel control of any road-car suspension ever produced. And just when it all started looking promising, audi ruined the day by inventing an all-wheel-drive system called quattro. It was suddenly game over for two-wheel- drive cars in rallying, and mercedes' management board was so aggravated that it instituted a company-wide ban on all motorsport participation. Mercedes engineers didn't listen. They would distract the board by disguising the race car as a factory- tuned w201 for the street, and to prove its mettle, mercedes took it to the nardo test facility in august 1983. It shattered three world and nine international speed records, averaging 154. 06 mph over 50,000 km (31,069 miles). The production version, called 190e 2. 3-16, made its debut the following month at the frankfurt auto show. By the time it hit public roads in 1984, its first year of production was sold out - a fitting debut for a subcompact sedan that could outperform the legendary 300sl gullwing. It cost thousands more than a base s- class, but the 16-valve 190e could handily outrun the topline, v-8-powered 500sel on the autobahn, despite having less than half the displacement. The 16v had a manual gearbox with a racing-style dogleg first gear and recaro bucket seats front and rear. Numerous handling and braking modifications included self-leveling air shocks in back, and the results were the highest cornering grip ever seen in a mercedes and braking distances among the shortest ever measured by contemporary car magazines. By the end of 1985, 5000 cozzie-benzes had been built, enough to satisfy fia group a homologation rules. With the motorsport ban still in place, however, mercedes couldn't officially take the baby benz racing. Instead, its engineers provided under-the-table assistance to independent dtm teams (including amg), hoping the management board wasn't paying too close attention. Webe autos specializes in marketing and adverti. Bucket Seats✔ AM/FM
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